A Prairie Reading List

Binnema, Theodore. Common & Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma P, 2001. Print.

Butala, Sharon. Lilac Moon: Dreaming of the Real West. Toronto: Harper Collins, 2005. Print.

Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1994. Print.

Collins, Scott L., and Linda L. Wallace, eds. Fire in North American Tallgrass Prairies. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma P, 1990. Print.

Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991. Print.

Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time. Boston: First Mariner Books, 2006. Print.

Frazier, Ian. Great Plains. New York: Penguin, 1990. Print.

Gayton, Don. The Wheatgrass Mechanism: Science and Imagination in the Western Canadian Landscape. Saskatoon, SK: Fifth House, 1990. Print.

Hanson, Twyla. Potato Soup. Omaha, NE: Backwaters Press, 2003. Print.

Helzer, Chris. The Ecology and Management of Prairies in the Central United States. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 2009. Print.

Hubbell, Sue. A Country Year: Living the Questions. New York: Harper & Row, 1983. Print.

Jackson, Wes. Consulting the Genius of the Place. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2010. Print.

Janovy, John, Jr. Keith County Journal. New York: St. Martin’s, 1978. Print.

Jones, David C. Empire of Dust: Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt. Calgary: U of Calgary P, 2002. Print.

Jones, Stephen R. The Last Prairie: A Sandhills Journal. Camden, ME: Ragged Mountain P, 2000. Print.

Josephy, Alvin M., ed. America in 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus. New York: Vintage, 1991. Print.

King, Thomas. Truth & Bright Water. New York: Grove, 1999. Print.

Knopp, Lisa. The Nature of Home: A Lexicon and Essays. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2002. Print.

Kooser, Ted. Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2002. Print.

Kuzma, Greg, ed. Nebraska Poets. Crete, NE: Best Cellar P, 1975. Print.

Laskin, David. The Children’s Blizzard. New York: Harper Perennial, 2004. Print.

Least Heat-Moon, William. PrairyErth: a deep map. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1991. Print.

Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. New York: Ballantine, 1966. Print.

Malin, James C. History and Ecology: Studies of the Grassland. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1994. Print.

Manning, Richard. Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie. New York: Penguin, 1995. Print.

Montgomery, David R. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations. Berkeley: U of California P, 2007. Print.

Morris, Wright. Plains Song. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1980. Print.

Muilenburg, Grace, and Ada Swineford. The Land of the Post Rock: Its Origins, History, and People. Lawrence, KS: U of Kansas P, 1975. Print.

O’Brien, Dan. Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch. New York: Random House, 2002. Print.

Price, John. Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2004. Print.

Randolph, Ladette, and Nina Shevchuk-Murray, eds. The Big Empty. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2007. Print.

Reichman, O.J. Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass Natural History. Lawrence, KS: U of Kansas P, 1987. Print.

Ross, Sinclair. As For Me and My House. Toronto: MacClelland & Stewart, 1941. Print.

Sandoz, Mari. The Buffalo Hunters. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1954. Print.

---. The Cattlemen. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1958. Print.

Savage, Candace. Prairie: A Natural History. Vancouver: Greystone, 2004. Print.

Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. New York: Vintage, 1950. Print.

Stubbendieck, James, Mitchell J. Coffin, and L.M. Landholt. Weeds of the Great Plains. Lincoln, NE: Nebraska Dept. of Agriculture, 1994. Print.

Studdendieck, James, and Kay L. Kottas. Common Forbs and Shrubs of Nebraska: Prairies, Rangelands, Pasturelands. Lincoln, NE: Board of Regents, 2007. Print.

---. Common Grasses of Nebraska: Prairies, Rangelands, Pasturelands. Lincoln, NE: Board of Regents, 2005. Print.

VanDevelder, Paul. Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, & the Trial That Forged a Nation. 2nd ed. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2005. Print.

Weaver, J. E. North American Prairie. Lincoln, NE: Johnsen Publishing Co., 1954. Print.